Lisa Riggs, Psy.D.

Survivors

Anticancer: A New Way of Life David Servan Schreiber is clinical psychiatrist at the University of Pittsburgh and a cancer survivor. I this book he weaves compelling research about a cancer prevention lifestyle along with his own story.

Cancer Survivorship: Today and Tomorrow- Dr. Ganz is a UCLA researcher and heads the Adult survivorship clinic there. This book is written for nurses, social workers, mental health professionals and medical providers of service for long term survivors.

Survivors of Childhood and Adolescent Cancer: A Multidisciplinary Approach (Pediatric Oncology)Wendy Hobbie & Kathleen Ruccione have been published extensively over the years in the field of childhood cancer survivorship. They- and the other authors have written this book about a multidisciplinary approach to the care of survivors managing late effects. Given recent research, I am sure newer information will be coming out, by these author

Childhood Cancer Survivors: A Practical Guide to Your Future (Childhood Cancer Guides) Book written for survivors.

Children

How to Help Children Through a Parent’s Serious Illness

Tickles Tabitha’s Cancer-tankerous Mommy

Grief/Loss

The Fall of Freddie the Leaf: 20th Aniversary Edition From Publisher-Originally published in the fall of 1982, the wonderfully wise and strikingly simple story of a leaf named Freddie has become one of the most popular books of our times. How Freddie and his companion leaves change with the passing seasons, finally falling to the ground with a winter’s snow, is an inspiring allegory illustrating the delicate balance between life and death.

The Next Place-An inspirational journey of light and hope to a place where earthly hurts are left behind.

Tear Soup Nicely illustrated, told in fable form.